Download or read book Millennium Glimpses Of Indian Performing Arts written by Utpal K Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance, music, theatre and puppetry were born in India millenniaago, while cinema is the most new-fengled art form hardly acentury old. But all five of them have been undergoing rapidtransformation over the last few decades and the process has onlybeen accelerated in the new millennium. The present volumeattempts to provide some exciting glimpses in the happeningscene in the current decade.Some aesthetes and experts, with substantial knowledge of theirdomains have offered and uncluttered insight into their ownareas. Thereafter, each performing art-scene is taken up andillustrations are offered so that the common art-lover and artenthusiastcan pick up enough acquaintance with the area of one sinterest and appreciate what is going around.Classical dances, for instance, are performed galore in theirnewfound strength and, side-by-side, new experiments are on: inkeeping with new tastes and heterogeneous audiences. Classicalmusic has found its firm foothold notwithstanding plenty ofinnovative attempts and fusion efforts. Theatre has found itsfirm foothold notwithstanding plenty of innovative attempts andfusion efforts. Theatre has come of age: with both dramatic textsas well as performance practices that happily commingle today.Cinema, the most nascent art, is perhaps the one most given toinnovations and experimentations. The age-old art of puppetry,on the contrary, is perhaps discovering its new potential: both intradition and contemporaneity.On the whole, the millennium mind is throbbing and excitedat the prospects of the performing arts providing not merelyentertainment, but much food for thought. This book looks at notmerely at the scene, but also behind the scene: in delving into thepractitioner s and director s psyche: to understand and appreciatehow the creative acumen is working, which is so important forappreciating their endeavours in the coming decades.